Drama films

hard to make all of the voices clear, but when some of the actors were talking I couldn’t make out what they were trying to say. The quiet voices made it harder to follow the smaller plot line of the play. “I find that a rising problem in today’s dramas is that actors…

The tragic story of Willy Loman and his ultimate demise show how a person’s obsession with wealth and popularity can keep you away from achieving true happiness. The exhilarating roller coaster ride Death of a Salesman is a story based in 1950’s New York that is focused on a middle-aged man that travels throughout New England selling merchandise. Although his job may sound boring, it is his family life and his flashbacks that occur often throughout the play that keep the reader interested. The…

William Shakespeare revolutionized character development and the formation of intricate plots. His innate ability to form these lifelike characters and trace their lives through interaction and complexity became so relatable and famous because his plays represent the human condition. In his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare depicts the emotionality, conflict, and mortality in the interactions of his characters and in doing so represents each as an individual. This representation of the…

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of comedy, what one can laugh at and at what point it goes too far and transitions from comedic to cruel. He uses an antagonist named Malvolio to see whether people can find humor in another person’s physical and emotional abuse. However, Shakespeare’s expansion of comedy serves a duel purpose as he uses it to teach his audience some valuable lessons about life and how one should behave. Shakespeare presents the character Malvolio in…

the common elements of drama, heartbreak, and death. Drama is a major element that causes tragedy. The drama between the two loved ones families is absurd and leads to tragic scenes. For example, in Act three scene one, Tybalt a Capulet kills Mercutio a Montague a good friend of Romeo. Romeo finds out about it, and due to the drama of their family and the feelings of revenge and rage Romeo kills Tybalt.” This displays how the story consist of drama. In addition, the drama between Romeo and…

Kim Imler Mrs. Voshell Honors English 10 10 May 2017 Marcus Brutus is a Tragic Hero, trust me On this earth there once lived a man. This man went by the name William Shakespeare. He is quite a well known figure in the world of literature. He has written many plays, one of those being The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a well known play of his about the assassination of Julius Caesar, the ruler of Ancient Rome, until his assassination. Now in many plays there is a tragic hero. Traditionally they have…

professional debut in 1937 at the age of 18 and made her broadway debut in ‘The “Seagull”. Uta Hagen won her first Tony Award, Drama critics award, and the Donaldson award in 1950 for her performance in “The Country Girl”. She went on to star in many classics such as “St. Joan” and “A Month in the Country”. It wasn’t until 1962 when she won her second Tony and second Drama Critics Award, as well as the London Critics Award. Uta Hagen became famous for her substitution technique, where…

The first instance a poet or man of the arts is shown in the play is in the few short moments leading up to the murder of Julius Caesar. It is the entirety of act two scene three that the audience is introduced to Artemidorus of Cidnos, a teacher of rhetoric. It is revealed that Artemidorus, with knowledge of the conspirators and the assassination plan, writes a letter of warning to Caesar and waits outside the capitol to give him the information. But upon multiple attempts of relaying the…

Having high hopes on ourselves often wears us down and puts ourselves in a state of depression when we aren’t able to fulfil our own expectations. “Death of a Salesman”, by Arthur Miller is a play that I would focus on psychological criticism because of the problems the main character, Willy Loman, faces and how he is blinded by it all. All of the characters in the play seems to have self-doubt and do not really know what they are searching for. The main cause of Willy’s problem is his desire to…

Tragedy is a form of drama, theorized to have been created as a tribute to the Greek god of theater: Dionysus. This form of drama was very popular in Ancient Greece, and was performed in theaters from the late 6th century BCE (Szemerényi 302). One of the most popular tragic playwrights of the time was Sophocles, who was known for his famous work, Antigone, a tragedy in which the main character suffers greatly after burying her brother against the king’s wishes (Ridgeway 141). This tragic play…